Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook
Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it might be illegal By: Colin Lecher and Ross Teixeira When someone applies for a mortgage, they trust a home loan lender or mortgage broker with some of…
Dutch DPA issues guidelines on data scraping
Joke Bodewits of Hogan Lovells writes: On 1 May 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidelines on data scraping used by private organisations in relation to GDPR principles including ‘lawfulness’. The guidelines could affect the way GenAI business should govern their data scraping processes. However it is questionable whether these guidelines will persevere…
The Real Battle for Data Privacy Begins When You Die
Shawn Wen reports: In 2012 a 15-year-old girl died in Berlin after being hit by a subway train. Her bereaved parents asked Facebook to turn over her private messages in hopes of understanding whether her death was a suicide or an accident. Facebook refused. Her death had already been reported to the social media site,…